Friday, November 30, 2012

Britain's leading aid agencies unite to tackle tax havens

• The Guardian's investigation into offshore secrecy highlights a
significant problem that is global in its impact. Developing countries
lose vital resources for development through illicit capital flight, to
such an extent that Africa is actually a net creditor to the rest of the
world. Ending financial secrecy to expose corruption and tax dodging
that hurts the poorest countries is a vital step in changing this
reality: and that action must be global. We need a new international
agreement to end the corporate anonymity and tax haven secrecy you have
revealed. The prime minister has promised action at the G8, and our
organisations will be working together next year to help make this
happen. We are long overdue an end to the secrecy that denies resources
to those in hunger and poverty.Brendan CoxDirector of policy and advocacy, Save the ChildrenChristine AllenDirector of policy and public affairs, Christian AidNeil ThornsDirector of advocacy, CafodMax LawsonHead of policy and advocacy, OxfamPaul CookAdvocacy director, TearfundBeverley DuckworthPolicy, advocacy and campaigns director, Action AidMariana Merelo LoboDirector of operations, Action Against Hunger UKGlen TarmanHead of policy and advocacy, BondAdrian LovettEurope executive director, OneSol OyuelaSenior UK political adviser, Christian Aid

TJN is thrilled to have such a widely based support. Things have moved on a very long way from the days, not so many years ago, when TJN's John Christensen would roam the corridors in the development community, trying, usually in vain, to get people interested in these gigantic issues.

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